Sean Johnston

Skull and crossbones. pillars and hourglass carved in relief on a gravestone, illuminated by sunlight dappled by tree branches. (c) 2010 Sean F. Johnston

18th C gravestone, Little Dalton Kirk, Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland.

#photography #tonality #tint #developing #bw #monochrome #processing #film #mediumformat #art #artphotography #bwphotography #filmphotography #taphophile #gravestone #churchyard #cemetery #skull #hourglass #abandoned

Slow Blues (2023, loosely after Mick Taylor) on 3-string guitar Recorded 25 Feb 2023; remastered November 2025

From a homemade 3-string guitar.

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#guitar #3-string #DIY #CBG #instrumental #multi-track #blues #Scotland

Landscape view of snow-covered field with sheep grazing. Diffusely sunlit cloud reveals small image of moon. (c) 2009 Sean F. Johnston

Sheep, snow, moon.

#Photography #bw #toner #tinted #cloud #monochrome #snow #sheep #moon #bwphotography #art #artphotography #fineartphotography #landscape #landscapephotography #southwest #Scotland

Close-up of one steel wheel of an asphalt roller, showing the nine bolts holding it to the axle and tight chain holding the machine to a transport lorry. (c) 2011, Sean F. Johnston

Asphalt-roller wheel, 2011.

#photography #bw #film #mediumformat #Mamiya #C330 #tlr #composition #tonality #dynamicrange #art #artphotography #fineartphotography #bwphotography #filmphotography #detail #circles #chains #southwest #Scotland

View of a chair with woven fabric, on which rest four 19C/early 20C books and a fabric cushion. (2012 c) Sean F. Johnston

#photography #texture #bw #monochrome #art #artphotography #bwphotography #film #mediumformat #Mamiya #C330 #tlr #developing #scanning

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A tree and field in the mist beyond a 19C iron gate. (c) 2012 Sean F. Johnston

Churchyard gate.

#photography #bw #monochrome #mediumformat #Mamiya #TLR #C330 #fog #mist #iron #bwphotography #art #artphotography #filmphotography #6x6 #southwest #scotland

Sandy beach at Aberdeen, Scotland.

Aberdeen, 2010.

#photography #bw #monochrome #landscape #ocean #beach #bwphotography #art #artphotography #film #mediumformat #Mamiya #C330 #tonality #grayscale #developing #northern #Scotland

Ventillation slots in fuselage of military aircraft, showing construction rivets.

Aircraft gills.

#photography #bw #monochrome #bwphotography #art #film #filmphotography #mediumformat #Mamiya #aircraft #museum #southwest #Scotland

A leafless beech tree stands alone on a hill divided up by a variety of makeshift wooden fences. (c) 2017 Sean F. Johnston

Fences.

#photography #monochrome #bw #art #mediumformat #film #Mamiya #resolution #grayscale #tonality #artphotography #fineartphotography #bwphotography #filmphotography

View from rear of a 1950s Cadillac, showing the passenger side, tailfin, rear lights and chrome bumper. (c) Sean F. Johnston 2015

White Cadillac tail.

#photography #bw #bwphotography #monochrome #film #35mm #filmphotography #design #car #automobile #tonality #grayscale #composition #framing #1950s #midcentury #Dumfries #southwest #Scotland

Iron grate with flaking paint, cast in a pattern of perpendicular stripes.

Cast iron grate with flaking paint, cast in a pattern of closely-spaced bars.

Church cellar grates

#photography #monochrome #tonality #bw #monochrome #mediumformat #film #filmphotography #bwphotography #art #artphotography #symmetry #repetition #pattern #southwest #Scotland

View of rapidly flowing water over a weir, with placid water above and churning water flowing over gap in stone weir.

Weir current, river Nith.

#photography #Fuji #X30 #bw #monochrome #art #square #artphotography #composition #water #flow #current #contrast #bwphotography #Dumfries #southwest#Scotland

Steel drain cover. (c) 2009 Sean F. Johnston

Drain, Wilmington, Delaware.

#photography #bw #monochrome #art #artphotography #pattern #symmetry #symmetrical #graphic #linear #steel #cast #bwphotography #film #35mm #bwphotography

View of a building entrance surmounted by a wood railing, which casts complex shadows onto the entrance walls. (c) 2010 Sean F. Johnston

Galway shadows
#photography #bw #monochrome #film #35mm #developing #scanning #bwphotography #art #artphotography #filmphotography #fineart #Galway #Ireland

Pile of various fishing nets on pier at Kirkcudbright docks. (c) 2011 Sean F. Johnston

#photography #bw #art #monochrome #bwphotography #artphotography #film #mediumformat #Mamiya #TLR #grayscale #tonality #composition #stilllife #naturemorte #commercial #fishing #Kirkcudbright #pier #dock #southwest #Scotland

Mud flats at River Nith / Solway Firth in southwest Scotland., showing deep lines left by tide.

#photography #grayscale #bw #monochrome #bwphotography #art #Fuji #X30 #artphotography #composition #tonality #southwest #Scotland #Solway #Nith

Detail of a wooden walkway showing slats, chicken-wire covering, picket gate and shadows from sunlight. (c) 2012 Sean F. Johnston

Walkway detail.

#photography #filmphotography #film #mediumformat #Mamiya #bw #monochrome #bwphotography #art #artphotography #composition #detail #texture #shadow #southwest #Scotland

Detail of overlapping wood joints and iron hinge plate on an exterior door in a cemetery. (c) 2017 Sean F. Johnston

Graveyard hinge detail

#photography #bw #monochrome #texture #wood #iron #door #art #artphotography #filmphotography #film
#mediumformat #bwphotography

Man standing in shallow water at beach edge of Solway Firth controlling a parasail. (c) 2008 Sean F. Johnston

Parasail at Powfoot

#photography #bw #monochrome #film #35mm #developing #scanning #filmphotography #art #artphotography #composition #bwphotography #Solway #Firth #Powfoot #southwest #Scotland

Take Five (by Paul Desmond, after the Dave Brubeck Quartet, 1959) Multi-tracked using Audacity

Guitar cover of Take Five, by Paul Desmond

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#Cooljazz #Brubeck #Desmond #Quartet #Jazz #musicsky #jazzsky #guitar #bass

Sunlight streaming through window with raised venetian blind, leaving striped shadows. (c) 2010 Sean F. Johnston

Venetians.

#photography #bw #film #monochrome #mediumformat #Mamiya #6x6 #light #shadow #artphotography #filmphotography #bwphotography #grayscale #composition

View upwards of a two-masted rural high-tension power pole carrying three lines, and having the mechanical fixtures symmetrically positioned. (c) 2009 Sean F. Johnston

Rural power pole

#photography #symmetry #art #artphotography #bw #monochrome #bwphotography #filmphotography #film #mediumformat #Mamiya #southwest #Scotland

A row of buildings beside a farm road, punctuated by a utility pole supporting four wires at right angles. The walls of the farm buildings are breeze block concrete and corrugated metal, painted red, grey and dull orange.

West Cluden farm, 2017.

#photography #Fuji #X30 #colour #architecture #rural #agriculture #farm #corrugated #utility #pole #southwest #Scotland

Row of barns along farm road. breeze-block walls, painted white; corrugated metal roofs, painted red; wooden barn doors, painted red. (c) Sean F. Johnston 2017

Barns, West Cluden, Scotland.

#photography #X30 #Fuji #artphotography #art #colour #pattern #texture #composition #Cluden #southern #Scotland

View down an unpaved farmroad flooded by rain, reflecting bare trees in the water. (c) 2013 Sean F. Johnston

Wet season.

#photography #bw #monochrome #bnw #reflection #filmphotography #film #mediumformat #artphotography #art #landscape #Mamiya #rural #farm #road #southwest #Scotland

Upward view of a two-pole powerline structure carrying three conductors, associated insulators and shunts. (c) 2009 Sean F. Johnston

Rural power line.

#photography #bw #monochrome #art #filmphotography #mediumformat #Mamiya #bwphotography #film #6x6 #artphotography #electricity #POV #southwest #Scotland

War memorial, Maxelltown, Dumfries, Scotland. Bronze soldier on granite plinth, with spread arms and face upraised. (c) 2018 Sean F. Johnston

Bronze war memorial by Welsh sculptor Henry Price, erected 1922 in Maxwelltown, Dumfries, Scotland.

#photography #Fuji #X30 #yellowfilter #monochrome #bw #art #artphotography #sacrifice #why #war #town #losses #Maxwelltown #Dumfries #Scotland

Bronze figure of a solder with legs bent and arms upraised. (c) 2008 Sean F. Johnston

Bronze figure of a soldier from the front, with arms upraised and palms open. (c) 2008 Sean F. Johnston

Unveiling of war memorial at Maxwelltown, 4 June 1922, with a large number of people crowded around the site.

Maxwelltown war memorial by Henry Price (1872-1922), and its unveiling in 1922.

#photography #warmemorial #statue #bronze #bw #monochrome #film #grayscale #poignant #Maxwelltown #Dumfries #DumfriesandGalloway #southwest #Scotland

Dimly lit stone walls and external stairway to a church tower, covered in snow. (c) Sean F. Johnston

Church steps.

#photography #film #mediumformat #Mamiya #tlr #250mm #dusk #snow #filmphotography #bwphotography #artphotography #stone #church #tower #contrast #southwest #Scotland